POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neoliberalism, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida
21 Nov 2017
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Midterm material classical realism neo-realism classical liberalism neo-liberalism. Ontological assumptions of neo-realism and neo-liberalism constructivism!) when constructivism came into being, it tried to criticize n-r and n-l at the sa focusing on their common attributes they were individualists, rationalists, and materialists. Anarchy and self-help constructivists are not individualists, they are not materialists, and they are no. Alexander wendt he launched constructivism and made it popular. 1992 article - anarchy is what states make of it argument of why anarchy leads directly to conflict in ir. Wendt wanted to challenged the first step in this logic the idea that anarchy automatically leads to self-help. Wendt"s argument is different, anarchy simply means the absence of somebo states what to do. Wendt claims that the simple fact of no world government doesn"t tell us anyt nature of international relations and history shows that ir can take many diffe even though there has been constant anarchy in the system.
